Liverpool Street station

Liverpool Street
London Liverpool Street
Main station entrance seen in January 2023
Liverpool Street Location of Liverpool Street in Central London
Location	Bishopsgate
Local authority	City of London
Managed by	Network Rail
Station code(s)	LST
DfT category	A
Number of platforms	19[1]
Accessible	Yes[2]
Fare zone	1
OSI	Bank Fenchurch Street Moorgate Liverpool Street [3]
National Rail annual entry and exit
2018–19	69.483 million[4]
– interchange	3.946 million[4]
2019–20	65.985 million[4]
– interchange	4.351 million[4]
2020–21	11.212 million[4]
– interchange	1.131 million[4]
2021–22	32.165 million[4]
– interchange	3.016 million[4]
2022–23	80.448 million[4]
– interchange	5.663 million[4]
Railway companies
Original company	Great Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London & North Eastern Railway
Key dates
2 October 1874 (1874-10-02)	Opened
12 July 1875	Underground station opened
24 May 2022	Elizabeth line opened
Listed status
Listed feature	Gothic style offices and two western bays of train sheds
Listing grade	II
Entry number	1286133[5]
Added to list	5 August 1975
Other information
External links	Departures Facilities
Coordinates	51°31′07″N 0°04′53″W / 51.5186°N 0.0813°W / 51.5186; -0.0813
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Liverpool Street station, also known as London Liverpool Street,^[6][7] is a major central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in the north-eastern corner of the City of London, in the ward of Bishopsgate Without. It is the terminus of the West Anglia Main Line to Cambridge, the Great Eastern Main Line to Norwich, commuter trains serving east London and destinations in the East of England, and the Stansted Express service to Stansted Airport.

The station opened in 1874, as a replacement for Bishopsgate station as the Great Eastern Railway's main London terminus. By 1895, it had the most platforms of any London terminal station. During the First World War, an air raid on the station killed 16 on site, and 146 others in nearby areas. In the build-up to the Second World War, the station served as the entry point for thousands of child refugees arriving in London as part of the Kindertransport rescue mission. The station was damaged by the 1993 Bishopsgate bombing and, during the 7 July 2005 bombing, seven passengers were killed when a bomb exploded aboard an Underground train, just after it had departed from Liverpool Street. New platforms for the Elizabeth line opened in 2022 as part of the Crossrail project.^[8]

Liverpool Street was built as a dual-level station, with provision for the Underground. A tube station opened in 1875 for the Metropolitan Railway; the tube station is now served by the Central, Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines. It is in fare zone 1 and is managed directly by Network Rail.^[9] With 80.4 million passengers between March 2022 and April 2023, it was the busiest station in the United Kingdom, according to the Office of Rail and Road.